Wendell Berry Quotes
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.
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I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
